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When I was with DEC, I used DSR quite a bit.

WordBasic macros could be developed to the translation both ways.
An experienced WordBasic programmer would need only a DSR manual to do 
the deed. It might help to know something about DSR. 

In article <Ds4Dsx.Cvy@world.std.com>,
Barry Singer <singer@world.std.com> wrote:
>Subject: MS Word/Runoff Converter??
>Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
>Organization: The World, Public Access Internet, Brookline, MA
>Summary: 
>Keywords: 
>
>This is being posted to comp.os.vms, comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc, 
>and bit.mailserv.word-pc.  Let me know if the following rather 
>strange request should be posted elsewhere as well...
>
>I routinely write design specs for my work.  My tool of choice has been MS
>Word for Windows 6.0.  However, for reasons too obscure to go into, I have
>been requested to produce this documentation in DSR (Digital Standard
>Runoff) I have worked with DSR in the past, and would very much prefer
>*not* to have to go back to it if there is another way. 
>
>The question is:  Does anyone know of some tool which would convert (in
>essence, "de-compile") a Word document and create an ASCII text file with
>imbedded DSR commands?  Or for that matter, a tool which does the opposite
>-- take a text file with DSR commands, and convert it to a Word file,
>using "standard" (NORMAL.DOT) style formats.  I suppost this utility could
>exist either on the VMS machine or on the PC. 
>
>Does such a utility exist?  Is this totally nuts??  Please respond via 
>email, as well as to the newsgroup(s) if appropriate.
>
>Thanks,
>Barry Singer
>singer@world.std.com
>
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